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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26
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the Champion Shorthand Writer of the
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Last spring was dangerously afflicted
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of by my physicians. As a last hope I
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The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26
How to Eat Cranes.

People in grape raising countries eat
grapes without chewing, skinning OF
seeding. The most agreeable way to eat
the fruit is to bolt it as fast as it can be
swallowed comfortably, pressing the
grape between the teeth so as to open up
the bulb enough to give the flavor
Chicago Herald
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26
Caoutchouc from a Plant.

According to one of the French chemi-
cal journals plant belonging to the let
tuce tribe, technically known as soachus
oleraceus, and common on the wayside
and among dry rubbish heaps in France,
has been found to yield, in fair proper
ton, very good quality Of caoutchouc.
To this end, the plants are STEPPED in car
bon bisulpllide and afterward boiled In
alcohol and caustic potash. About 4.3
per cent. Of the weight is thus obtained
as caoutchoue. Chicago Times.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26

How's business2 asked reporter of a
court plaster manufacturer. It's been
good but we are preparing to shut down
now for the winter. Shut down why
is that? Why, you see. the baseball
season is almost over.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26

Scientists say that potato rot comes
once in ten years-every decayed as it
were.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26

A Frenchman says: When your friend
laughs, it is for him to tell you the cause
Of his merriment; when your friend
cries, it is for you to ascertain the reason
Of his grief
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26

We couldn't expect the Doodle Eel
lows Of New York naturally to be salts
fed with a Ejckle.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26

The humbug has no wings at all; but
he gets there just the same.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26

They say Lolita is very rich. In other
words, she has Lolita money.
The Morris County chronicle. [volume] (Morristown, N.J.) 1877-1915, 1887-11-26

The name of prominent Japanese is
Iwindi. Itsuggests blow between the
is.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-05
PLEASANT RIDGE CLUB.

EDITOR PROGRESSIVE FARMER
Our club met on January 1st with a
full quorum present though not all
the members. Yet we had the best
attendance we have had for several
months, and there seemed to be
more interest manifested than for
some time. We resolved to have the
attendance better in our club or the
membership smaller. We are with
the farmers club like we are with
farming. We believe a club with
small membership we'll attended is
better than one with large men,
bership poorl y attended Our club
now numbers thirty MEM
hers. The chair appointed the fol-
lowing delegates to the next county
meeting, which convenes on the 9Th
inst: S. Pfaff, A. A. Flynt, r. B.
Flynt, b. r. Kiser, r. l.. Marlborough
w. A. Schultz and F. n. Pfaff. Hav-
ing good deal of business to trans
act we had no discussson on any
particular subject, but we had a few
speeches from various members upon
our road laws. The majority of our
members seem to approve Of the
employing convict labor and also
all the insolvents in our courts who
fail to pay their fines and costs. We
notice in the tabulated statement
made by the clerk of the board of
county commissioners that half the
fees paid by the county in such
cases amounted to over two thous-
and dollars which would do vast
amount of work on our public roads.
And not only would it do the work
on our roads but we believe it would
have good effect on the morals of
our people. Time would not admit
Of a full discussion upon this impor-
tant subject at this meeting, SO it
was set apart for the topic Of discus
sion at our next meeting on the
third Saturday of the present month
at Z o'clock p. m.
F. N. PFAFF, Secy.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-05
FARMVILLE CLUB.

The farmers club of Farmville
township met at its usual time and
place and admitted five new mem
bers to it's roll Much interest was
manifested on the subject of the pro-
posed State convention of Farmers
and it was resolved that this club
endorse the proposition to call
convention of the farmers Of the
State in the city of Raleigh during
the next legislature and pledge
their support to any action that
body looking to the elevation and
dignifying Of the industrial pur-
suits.
Other matters of local nature
were discussed and all seemed hope
full of the benefits derived from the
farmers movement in the State.
Subject for discussion at the next
meeting of crops.
FRANCIS JOYNER,
Secretary. 4
Continued on 18th page.)
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-05
No. ~.

in the Agricultural and Mechanical
College. Both of these (the college
and the institute) are an absolute
necessity or how can the farmer be
educated in his calling? Every
other profession, trade or business
by which men gain a subsistence
have their schools of training while
the burden-bearing farmer is left
out in the dark to grope his way as
best he may.
\ Oh that the farmers of North Car
olina could be aroused up to see
their real condition and then have
the manly courage to demand the
helps which are theirs in simple JUS
tice. Then light and knowledge
would pour in upon their tedious
wanderings and they could strike
out from these low grounds of sor-
row for the high road to the king
dom come! Let the farmer hence
forth feel with Tennyson that
knowledge is now no more fountain
sealed,
Drink deep until the habits of the
slave.
The sins of emptiness, gossip and
spite,
And slander die. Better not be at
Than not be noble.
The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1887-01-05

S,Nject-Agicultural Clubs, County
Institutes and the Convention.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07

Commerce Law enabled the California
Refinery to anticipate the move, and
supply the market in the Missouri
and Mississippi valleys with sugar
in advance of the American S shipment.
But although the move failed CONNER
ciaIIy it identified the American Refinery
with Canadian opposition to the Arneri-
can railroad system of transportation,
and that must react in the long-run
most unfavorably. to the Hawaiian sugar
producing interests. 1t is hardly to be
supposed that the United States will
continue to give these Islands special
tariff advantages if foreign transporta-
ton agencies across the continent are to
be employed to ship our sugar to East
ern points to compete with duty-paid
sugar from Eastern refneries.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
The RrunhIIde.

The New York esprit of the Time"
of April 18th has the following:
One of the most interesting and nota BILE
events in yachting history is the cruise of
Mr.. John J. Phelps in his schooner yacht
Brunhilde, which arrived at Rio de Janeiro.
Apri19, on her return voyage to New York.
The BrunhiIde sailed from New London,
Conn, in June, 1885, for Cowes, Isle of
Wight. From Cowes she proceeded
through the Mediterranean. Malta was
visited, and she sailed up the Nile to
Cairo She was towed through the Suez
Canal and the Red Sea. Near the lower
end of the Red Sea the yacht lost her bow
spirit and foretopmast and parted the tow
lines. The tug then abandoned her. She
was brought to anchor under the lee of an
island, and, when the weather cleared,
sailed for Bombay, visiting the Lacadie
Islands.
After refitting at Bombay the Brunhilde
sailed through the Straits of Malacca to
Singapore, Canton, Hongkong and Yoke
hama, and so across the Pacific to San
Francisco. Thence she sailed to the Sand
WITCH Islands, the Society Islands, Easter
Island, San Juan Fernandez and Valpa-
raise; thence round Cape Horn to Rio
de Janeiro.
Mr.. Phelps was his own skipper through
out, feat which he may well be proud of.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
me Thieves oil London.

The most careful precautions will not
avail against cOnfederated thieves directed
by superior intelligence. Now and then
the enterprise of an erratic genius will
give useful hints to the capitalists and
their locksmiths. One of the most re-
markable instances of the kind was that
of the chief of band of burglars arrested
and convicted about twenty years ago.
"Scottie,' not without much natural
pride in his professional ingenuity, after
his conviction made full confession.
His system, like that of most successful
schemers, was as bold as it was simple.
He set himself to attack the padlocks
which secure those strong metal bands of
which have spoken. To pick them on
the spot was difficult or impossible. On
the other hand, by placing womeb on then
watch the fastenings might be tempered
with in the interval of the policeman pass
ing on the beat after his first satisfactory
examination. The paddock was quickly
removed by breaking the catch of the hasp
with small Jenny and replaced by
one similar in size and appearance. Dur
ing the night the intricate works were eX-
tracted, so that it could be opened by its
own or any common key. Then the hasp
was neatly repaired and the lock returned
to its place before the arrival of the owners
in the morning. Thus the burglars, being
masters of the situation, might enter the
place at their leisure. No fewer than
twenty-seven doors had been so "doc-
tored, - when the gang came to sudden
grief.-Blackwood' Magazine.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
Another aims Deserving Glass.

It is mistake to believe that it is only
the very poor and wretched in great
city who deserve aims. Those, of course,
who are absolutely starving or naked de-
manded the first attention of the char
liable, but next to these the people who
suffer most are perhaps those who, though
in reduced circumstances, are obliged to
keep up appearances and go abroad in
suitable attire. There is no sadder sight
than the spectacle presented by some Of
these unfortunates, whose utmost toll does
not suffice them for the needs entailed by
their position in the world. In the abstract,
clean man, though clothed in rags, should
not meet with the contempt of his asso-
ciates; but the custom of ages having
sanctioned the Importance of appearances,
the charitably disposed should accept the
fact and realize that assistance given
deicately in this direction is far more
worthy than the indiscriminate aims
giving to the more apparently INDECENT
Globe Democrat
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
Old and New Navy systems.

Naturally there is war to the knife be-
tween the advocates of the old and those
of the new systems. The new men say
that naval warfare has reached that point
of scientific development that man needs
be scientist in order to be good officer
The older officers admit the necessity for
an advance over the methods employed
with wooden vessels and sailing ships, yet
don't agree to the proposition that in four
years a young fellow can acquire all the
sciences. They say with truth that every
thing done now at the academy is purely
experimental, while many things, like
giving the cadets meant for line officers,
the engineers and the naval constructors
all exactly the same course of instruction,
are preposterous. Nothing wider apart
than the duties of these officers can be
imagined. An engineer doesn't need to
know how to build a ship, nor a ship
builder how to navigate avessel, yet they
are turned out in a batch on graduation
day, all having gone through precisely the
same course of instruction.
Funny stories are told about these
walking compendiums of universal
knowledge One Saturday some time ago
the second class were all taken on board
the Constellation for a cruise down the
bay They were to have charge of the
engine room and everything. When the
cadet engineers and their inStructOr-all
learned in the books-tried to start the
engines the pistons would not move a peg.
In vain was every expedient tried. The
engines were carefully examined, and a
perplexed and perspiring crowd were at
their wits end. At last stoker, peering
about, discovered that the scientists had
forgotten to turn the steam on. This was
not specifically set down in the books, but
as soon as this small particular was
attended to the engines worked beauti-
fully. = Washington Cor. New York
Mail and Express.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
BEFORE BICKERToN, ]
POIIce COurC.
BEFORE POLICE JUSTICE DAYTON.

FRIDAY, May 9th.
Joe Williams forfeited bail of Sc for
drunkenness.
N. Peterson, an express driver with
badge No. 100, was charged with vio-
lating express rule No. 6. He pleaded
guilty, and was fined 81 with 81 costs.
Along and Moizeau, charged with
gaming, were remanded to the 9TH.
All Seen, charged with assault and
battery on Que Yen with club danger
GUS to life, was remanded to the 9th.
John Baptiste was charged with steal
ing a bag of fish, the property of Wild
er's Steamship Company. F. J. Scott
stated that on Tuesday he found the de-
fendant slowing away a bag of fish
which he had taken from Wilder's ware
house. The fish came as freight. He
has been caught before in similar act
The defendant was found guilty of lar
ceny in the third degree and sentenced
to pay fine of $5 and be imprisoned at
hard labor for six months.
CIVIL CASES.
J. l. Dowsett vs.. Hale Hau, action on
promissory note.
All Sing VS.. D. Santos, assumpsit for
$40. Judgment for plaintiff for the
amount claimed. s6 e
Five other cases were continued, and
three were settled out of Court. & (
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07

His ExcelIency Mr.. Rosa said that in
view of His Majesty's desire to take part
in the celebration, he would suggest that
the nature of the entertainment be left
with the committee, and the latter con-
fer with him, as it was His Majesty's in
tention to give either ball or dinner on
that day. He merely offered this as
suggestion to the meeting.
After vote of thanks to Major Wode-
house for presiding the meeting adj
iourned.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
Stealing Boulanger's New Explosive.

Stealing BOulanger's New Explosive.
Gen BouIanger has instituted a search
ing inquiry into robbery of about 6lo-
gramme of the new explosive melinite.
The robbery was, it is stated, committed
during the night of Feb. 3 at the powder
magazine of Sevran, where the new explo-
sive is kept in special magazine. The
workmen employed in the manufacture Of
the melinite are subject to the strictest OF
rules and are carefully searched before
leaving their workshops, which, together
with the magazines, are surrounded
by a wall three meters in height.
Notwithstanding all the precautions
which have been taken, guard
employed inside the magazine to watch
the stoves In which the powder prepared
during the Gay is dried at night, thought
he saw two men sinking out of the maya
zine. Instead of running after them the
man-On duty in the magazine warned the
guard outside The soldiers and the
gendarmes from Livry at once beat the
country all round that magazine, in or
near which no one was discovered, but the
following morning it was perceived that
the door of the special magazine in which
the melinite is kept had been opened and
that about a 6logamme Of that explosive
had been purloined London Standard
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a R.x "a. noctor.

There is cat doctor who runs drug
store in Washington who, it is said, is 90
ing the most thriving practice of any ale
viAtor of the ills of the feline and canine
races of any man In his profession In the
whole country. This physician has the
highest class of callers of any professional
man in the city, as only the most aristo-
cratic can afford to have an expert wait
upon their pets. AT times as many as
three or four carriages, owned by the most
refined and wealthy people at the natlonA
capital, are drawn up in front OF the drug
store and Office, and his business IS so
large that customers with their patients
have to wait their turns, Like men In bar
Der shops 1t is seldom that man enters
the drug store or Office for the purpose or
receiving professional call from the doc
tor. They are almost invariably women
The doctor was philosophiZing the other
day to some gentlemen on the general ais
of cats and dogs, during which he stated
that more trouble came from a lack OF
fresh air and exercise than anything else.
He especially deprecated the fact that
these household pets were guarded so
closely in the house, and were not allowed
to romp around like children.
81 could name, - he said, families IN
this city that guard as closely their pet
cats and dogs as they do their children.
Large numbers of them have cribs and
cradles and lounges made for their pet
and cushioned in the most comfortable
manner possible. At one place visited re-
Gently found fine old Maltese reclining
on a pillow of down. When asked for
it for the purpose of making an examlna-
ton the lady of the house lifted it as care
fully as if it were a tiny baby. She had
delicate spoons and forceps and a dOche to
inject medicine into the poor things ears
There was a swab of silk and cotton to
cleanse its throat, as it had had something
like diphtheria, and when 1 spoke Of a
severe medicine as the only hope for re-
covery she threw up her hands in that
same horror mothers do when extreme
measures are to be resorted to to save
their infants Indiana polls Journal
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
THE QUEENS JUBILEE.

A Meeting OF British Residents to
Make Arrangements for q CeIebra-
1fOn
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
BEFORE PRESTON, J.

Makalei ct al VS.. D. Himeni. Bill for
a writ, account, etc. Continued peremp-
torily from the I'd. Ordered that de-
PENDANT is in default, that he appear
a week from next Monday under pain of
being adjudged guilty of contempt and
that he then produce in Court all books,
papers, vouchers, etc., in the matter.
L. A. Thurston for plaintiff. No appear
ance Of or for defendant.
3 Ben Schloss VS.. Marx Rosenthal. Pc
tition for damages claimed at s., 200 for
garnishee process and for jury trial at
July term. Ordered that on account of
bankruptcy proceedings begun yesterday,
proceedings in this matter are suspended.
L. A. Thurston for plaintiff. w. A.
Whiting for defendant.
BEFORE BICKERTON, j.
G. Bolte, assignee, plaintiff of record,
vs. Waiwaiole. Assumpsit $145. Con-
tinued from yesterday. Judgment for
defendant, appeal allowed. No appear
ance of or for plaintiff. L. A. Thurston
for defendant
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
couN1ERPARrs.

II cannot lure them-I who cannot f1yr'
With istless petals on the summer air
The dropping flower breathed quivering sigh
For dainty butterflies, that would not care.
Upon her breast touch of velvet wings,
Even as on the air her sigh arose,
Had come to her the restless fiuttering things,
Lured by the loveliness Of her repose.
Alice Rollins in Lippincott's.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
Phosphorous In the Soil.

There is considerable PHOSPHORUS in
the soil in portions OF Georgia. In Albany
this spring the light emitted has been re-
markable, and a correspondent writes:
Pedestrians have caught this luminous
substance on their feet, and their path
would be marked for short distance by
the light New York Sun.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07

Senator Mcpherson, congratulated upon
his improved health, said that it was all
due to the fact that always before going
to Washington dinner he eats bowl Of
mush and milk and another after his re-
turn, meanwhile eating little or nothing
at the dinner and drinking nowine. He
said that in that way only was he able to
retain good health throughout the season.
New York Sun 49,
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07
supreme Court.
BEFORE M'CULLY, J.
FRIDAY, Nav {

FRIDAY, May 9th.
In re bankruptcy of Marx Rosenthal.
Creditors, Cert, Schloss & Co., petition
for adjudication. Return day. Con-
tinued for one week. L. A. Thurston for
petitioners. W. A. Writing for alleged
hankrunf s1lG1
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1887-05-07

A Bostonian is the owner of 400 dogs OF
every yariety-the largest number pos
sessed by any single person in the world.